Transitions One of the most important transitions one can make in life is from being a child to being an adult. From a purely instinctive, ancient hunter gatherer standpoint, children are expected to consume more then they produce. They are expected to require others to help solve most of their problems. Adults […]
Lion Debt and Extinction Events
Hunting Documentary I saw this interesting documentary about lions and how they hunt. Lions, like all other animals, have instincts that are calibrated for their environment. And like all other animals, they need to energy to survive, and they have to expend energy to survive. This is essentially the difference between any […]
Occultist Seed Theory
Weird Pie Man I used to have this really weird neighbor a while back. He loved to bake pies, and he was always giving everybody pies. They were really good, and he kind of had a legitimate reason for this strange behavior, but it was still kind weird. He’d just show up […]
Malthusian Death Traps
Black Death Back during the black death, nobody knew why everybody was dying. Of course, today we know it’s because of the fleas that were on the rats. But back then, it was way before they could understand science. Way before we humans learned how to use science to increase health and […]
Vampire Parasite Nation
Vampire Bats Vampire bats have a highly regulated collection of social instincts. One of them is the capability of doing each other favors, and remembering who has done favors for whom. They’ll go hunting, some will come back with blood, some won’t. The ones that don’t get any blood will borrow from […]
The History of Corn
Supermarket Battle I was talking to a friend of mine from Japan a couple days ago. Somehow we ended up talking about American food you can find in Japanese supermarkets vs. Japanese food you can find in American supermarkets. Since we’d both lived in both places, it was a compare contrast kind of […]
Japanese High School Girls
Overseas Friend I have a friend that lives in Japan. She works at a large, international company. She lives in the company dorm which is pretty common. Most company workers that aren’t married live in the company dorm. Transitions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun04.mp4 Once they get married they move out, but until that happens, they […]
Reversions To The Mean
Moving Averages Stock charts are a fascinating combination of technical and mathematical specificity and human psychology. One one hand they can be a very accurate representation of a company’s health. On the other hand, they are a pure expression of human psychology. One way to look at a chart is to compare the day […]
Unlocking Hidden Energy
Troy A Myth? For the longest time historians believe it that the Trojan war story in the city of Troy was completely a myth. Nobody really believed that the ancient city of Troy was a real place until very recently when they started to find some archaeological evidence that Troy was indeed an actual city. […]
Moon Shot
Beat The Russians One of the best examples of setting and achieving a goal was the US moon program back during the 60s. This has everything that all of the goal books have as to what you need to create a goal, but there’s one more thing that was included in the US moon program […]